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Digital assets news and commentary
Technology
Bluprynt and Kroll announce strategic partnership
23 March 2026 US
Reporter: Tahlia Kraefft
The collaboration will enable financial services institutions and regulators to operationalise digital asset and tokenised markets compliance through the adoption of Know Your Issuer technology
Industry
Apex Group integrates T-REX Ledger
20 March 2026 Bermuda
Reporter: Matthew Challis
The initiative intends to provide a neutral coordination layer for tokenised asset ownership and compliance over multiple blockchains, in a bid to enable global distribution of tokenised funds
Industry
Elliptic integrates Tempo
19 March 2026 US
Reporter: Matthew Challis
The initiative will enable Elliptic’s clients to screen wallet addresses, trace cross-chain fund flows between Tempo and other blockchains, and access data for compliance workflows
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Brazil’s regulatory turn
Juan Andres Dudier Mendoza, head of product, digital asset stablecoin at Apex Group, examines how Brazil has built Latin America’s most comprehensive digital-asset regime, setting a new benchmark for operational, custody, and FX oversight in the region
Bitcoin at the intersection of monetary policy and market cycles
James Butterfill, head of research at CoinShares, assesses why Bitcoin has underperformed traditional safe havens following the Federal Reserve’s policy shift, considering how cyclical flows, muted institutional demand, and regulatory uncertainty are weighing on near-term performance
From experiment to infrastructure
Tahlia Kraefft examines how as the United Kingdom’s approach to cryptocurrency regulation shifts from minimal oversight to a comprehensive financial services framework regime, is the regulation a brake on innovation or structure for scale?
Tokenisation alone is not enough
Rico van der Veen, co-founder and CEO at SemiLiquid Labs, considers that while tokenisation has improved asset mobility and transparency, the real constraint on institutional scale lies in outdated credit rails
Scaling stablecoins around the world
Nilmini Rubin, chief policy officer at Hedera, explores how stablecoins are emerging as a core component of global digital money, and why regulatory fragmentation risks undermining their cross-border potential
Project Agorá
Led by the BIS, Project Agorá is exploring whether tokenised money and a unified ledger model can address the long-standing inefficiencies of wholesale cross-border payments
Prediction Markets’ Institutional Pivot
Rapid growth across event-based platforms is drawing attention from established exchanges and professional participants. Matt Barrett, CEO at Adaptive, looks at how long-term credibility depends on hard-won lessons from earlier digital market cycles
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Crossover Markets
Brandon Mulvihill
Brandon Mulvihill, co-founder and CEO of Crossover Markets, speaks to Karl Loomes about why vertically integrated exchanges constrain institutional adoption, and what must change for digital asset trading to meet institutional standards
Bitget
Gracy Chen
Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget, sits down with Karl Loomes to discuss why institutional focus has shifted from experimentation to execution, what is holding back large-scale adoption, and how liquidity, custody, and regulatory clarity will shape digital market infrastructure
TRAction Fintech
Quinn Perrott
Quinn Perrott, co-CEO at TRAction Fintech, examines how ASIC’s October 2024 Reporting Rules Rewrite clarifies the treatment of cryptocurrency CFDs and other OTC derivatives, including where they sit within Australia’s trade-reporting asset class framework
SWIAT
Ivica Aračić
Ivica Aračić, chief technology officer at SWIAT, explains how regulatory‑compliant digital market infrastructure is driving institutional confidence in tokenised assets, and why shared, neutral DLT platforms are essential for scaling onchain issuance, settlement, and collateral across global capital markets
Zumo
Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor, head of policy at Zumo, speaks to Karl Loomes about the FCA’s crypto authorisation gateway, what it signals for the UK’s digital assets strategy, and how firms should prepare for the full regulatory regime
Crystal aOS
Joni Pirovich
Joni Pirovich, founder and CEO of Crystal aOS, sits down with The Digital Assets Edge to discuss why compliance remains the biggest barrier to institutional crypto adoption, and how agentic AI could turn regulatory burden into scalable infrastructure
Euroclear
Miguel Ferreira and Marije Verhelst
Securities financing is going through a seismic transformation, sparked by fast-moving macro events, ever-shifting regulations, and rapid digitalisation. Miguel Ferreira and Marije Verhelst discuss how Euroclear’s Collateral Highway is adapting to the changing dynamics
LMAX Group
Luke Dorney
Luke Dorney, head of Custody at LMAX Group, sits down with The Digital Asset Edge to look at institutional crypto, collateral, and client demands in this evolving market
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